This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on … recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities … carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It includes a general framework for poverty reduction in Latin America and …

and manage the risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social … equity. The articles included in this book were presented at the conference, "Social Protection and Poverty," held at the …

This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not … only result in higher poverty rates but also may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of … a poverty reduction strategy. As a result, the paper analyses the role of exchange rate policy, capital controls and …

. Contrary to what is commonly assumed, inequality seems to breed altruism among the rich regarding the quintessential poverty …While decreasing inequality is generally considered desirable, and there is a growing understanding of which policies …-economic groups arises on how government should address inequality rather than whether it should do so. While poorer respondents …

of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in poverty. In this discussion the authors … the environments of disadvantaged children during the first several years of life. Section II of this paper presents a …' improved school performance and earnings opportunities in later years, and a reduced probability for program participants to …

efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty … communities and small producers thus supporting efforts to reduce inequality and by actions for conservation and protection of the …

criteria, use of poverty maps, application of qualitative methodologies, and more rigorous analysis of survey data to determine …

poverty. Latin America has experienced two major crises in the last 15 years. In the 1980s, Mexico's debt crisis spread …This discussusion paper deciphers how poverty and income distribution were affected by economic shocks in the Latin … American region. Empirical evidence suggests that macroeconomic shocks can result in substantial increases in inequality and …